"The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one."
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"I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon."
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"I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen."
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"The magic of property turns sand to gold."
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"The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end."
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"How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on."
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"I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand"
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"It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds."
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"I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come to recognize, that the Trump's promises are built on sand. There is nothing there."
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"As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that."
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